ANALYSIS – In one of the better moments of any recent congressional hearing, women's sports advocate, and former competitive swimmer for the University of Kentucky, Riley Gaines hit back at Pennsylvania Democrat Rep. Summer Lee's nonsensical accusation that it's “transphobic bigotry” to defend women in sports.
During her opening remarks Tuesday at the House Oversight subcommittee about Team Biden's proposed Title IX rule changes making it illegal to keep biological men out of women's sports, Rep. Lee said that the discussion was necessary but then claimed that it would also force everyone to listen to “transphobic bigotry” from some speakers.
At the conclusion of her testimony, Gaines, who is only 23, stated that if her words made her “transphobic,” as Lee claimed, then the Democrat lawmaker was a “misogynist” for what she said in her opening remarks. (RELATED: Democrats Shut Down Hearing After Senator Asks About Epstein Flight Log)
Lee tried to have Gaines' comment struck from the record but eventually withdrew her objection.
Touché! As Gaines said: “They can dish it out, but they can't take it.”
Rep. Lee is Black. Imagine if the issue was white men “identifying” as Black men or women to gain entry into Historically Black Colleges (HBCs) or other black groups. What would she call that?
Under the proposed federal rule changes, policies that prevent men who identify as women from competing on women's sports teams would be illegal.
One witness, Fatima Goss Graves, president of the far left National Women's Law Center, ridiculously claimed that preventing male athletes from competing against women enforces sexist stereotypes and women should “learn to lose gracefully” to men who identify as women.
Gaines stressed that so-called “inclusion” cannot take priority over “safety and fairness” for women and girls. (RELATED: Megyn Kelly Erupts After Transgender Athlete Wins Women's Tournament)
The Christian Post reported:
Later during the hearing, Rep. James Comer, R-Ky., cited the [”lose gravefully”] remark when speaking to Gaines, adding that he thinks it's a “slap in the face” to tell a female athlete who worked hard that she just has to accept losing. Gaines said she appreciated Comer's words, and she also clarified that she has lost “gracefully” throughout her career.
“Speaking to the incident of Thomas and I at the National Championships, it is an incredible achievement, but there were four women who beat me,” the former competitive swimmer said. “I'm incredibly proud of those women who beat me. So I certainly can and have lost gracefully many times in my career.”
The former collegiate women's swimmer was forced to compete against trans-identifying athlete Lia (Will) Thomas during the National College Athletics Association championships last year. Thomas started swimming on the women's swim team at the University of Pennsylvania after competing on the men's swimming team for three years.
Gaines, who now serves as an ambassador for the conservative Independent Women's Forum, recounted during her testimony Tuesday how the NCAA forced female athletes to compete against Thomas, a man, and undress in a locker room with a “6'4, fully intact, naked male.”
Thank you, Riley Gaines for taking up this critical battle for truth against supporters of gender inequality in sports, including their anti-science leftist backers in Congress.
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